 | Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 ページ
...justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad, of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 ページ
...guiliy to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profancncss, or immorality : and retract them. If he be my enemy,...if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occa•ion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, n never desired to apply all the judgment tliat he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he left standing in... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 ページ
...and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and • expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." It does not appear that... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 656 ページ
...all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned for obscenity, profaneness, and immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, and I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 ページ
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profanenes?, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet as oar best dispositions are imperfect, lie left standing in... | |
 | 1841 - 602 ページ
...on the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. ' If,' said he, ' Mr Collier be my ' enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as 1 have given ' him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my ' repentance.' It would... | |
 | 1842 - 740 ページ
...expressions of mine which can be truly argued or accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality — and I RETRACT THEM. If he be my enemy, let him triumph :...of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 760 ページ
...expressions of mine which can be truly argued or accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality — and I RETRACT THEM. If he be my enemy, let him triumph :...of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 ページ
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
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I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy,... 
